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UPDATE: Hold tight. Launch bugs. It was early 2011 and TechCrunch’s comment section was overrun with trolls. Bullies and asshats were drowning out our smart commenters. We hated our commenters because, well, they hated us. So we rolled out Facebook Comments in an attempt to silence the trolls — by removing...

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Livestar's founder Fritz Lanman is also an investor in Pinterest. Pinterest is acquiring Livestar, a mobile recommendation app, the companies announced on Wednesday. "If you're not familiar with Pinterest, it's an online tool that helps people discover things they love and inspires them to do these things in their...

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We’re in Austin. It’s hot here. I like it. Tonight, from 6 to 10pm, we’re taking over the Stage on Sixth for our first meetup and pitch-off in Texas. We’re stoked. Come out. There are still a few tickets left. After an explosion of applicants, we lined up 30 great...

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When we first heard about Snapchat, the photo-sharing app that lets you set how long the recipient can view a picture for, we immediately thought that it must be used for sexting. Sexting is the practice of sending nude or revealing photos of one's self to others. Here's how it...

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From about 2008 to 2012, one way everyone thought Facebook would make a lot of money is through something called "f-commerce." "F-commerce," was a play on e-commerce. The vision was that small and large retailers alike would open stores on Facebook.com, and that through the magic of "social," the distribution...

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Amazon, like competitors Hulu and Netflix, is set on producing original content for its Instant Video library. Along with various children’s series, the company is also working on six new comedy pilots which users will then vote on, deciding who keeps on filming and who shuts down. What we didn’t...

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It took two hours of working through pleasantries, but tonight’s PandoMonthly fireside chat ended with AirBnB co-founder Brian Chesky and PandoMonthly host Sarah Lacy talking about meth. The context of the conversation was an ugly incident in which a host on the company’s short-term rental network saw her apartment...

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And now, the moment you all have been waiting for: VentureBeat, GigaOm, and TechCrunch are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 Crunchies awards. We combed through thousands of your submissions, considered your votes, and put them together with our editors’ expertise to come up with this list....

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Creating Google spreadsheets doesn’t have to be a boring undertaking, especially if you’re a fan of beer. Here’s a fun little auto fill option that the Drive team has put into place to help you list out popular beers. Simply put the word “lager” in the A1 cell of the...

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Intel is reportedly working on a set-top box for your TV that will let you stream video and audio content, record shows online, and watch a few select cable channels. We've been hearing rumblings of Intel's set-top box for a few months, but TechCrunch and Slashgear are both reporting that...

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Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR at Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. This post is about Apple’s Passbook. It’s not about mobile wallets, or Google Wallet, or Square, or anything else. I realize...

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How much do we love thee, Drew Houston? Let us count the ways. (Photo: wiki.smu.edu) There’s the gadget liveblog, the multimedia-heavy feature and the bloggy, snarky take. But as we near the end of 2012, we may have reached the last possible evolutionary stage of tech writing: just fucking penning...

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It’s a little hard to believe that the publishing world has only been using WordPress for a decade, as today marks the 10th birthday for the platform. Back in 2003, WordPress was the new kid on the scene helping those that wanted a simple publishing tool. I first became...

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MG Siegler, the TechCrunch columnist and venture capitalist known best for his unabashed pro-Apple bias, spurred a lot of discussion (and mockery) today when he announced he was departing Michael Arrington's VC firm CrunchFund for Google Ventures. The irony wasn't lost on us: the idea of a part-time Apple blogger...

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Want To "Bang With Nobody"? Use Google+: Steve O'hear for TechCrunch: When your product idea turns into a meme, you're probably doing something right. I'm referring, of course, to Bang With Friends. It's the controversial Facebook app that lets you privately nominate those in your Friends network you want to...

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Plus Firefox's new logo, are handsets heading for a 'black summer'?, the problem in San Francisco and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamA week after Instagram's video launch, Vine sharing tanks on Twitter >> MarketingLandIt's now been a full week...

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Following this afternoon’s announcement that Amazon has agreed to acquire Goodreads, I had a few minutes to talk to the Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon VP of Kindle Content Russ Grandinetti. They stayed pretty vague about the two things I was most curious about — how the deal came...

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When Bravo takes something you love and makes it into a spectacle, leave it to PBS to pick up the pieces and create something with real potential to be great. The Public Broadcasting Service is airing a show called “Silicon Valley,” (the same title as the Bravo reality show)...

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Google has bought aggregation and summarization startup Wavii for more than $30 million, winning a bidding war with Apple over the firm. TechCrunch is reporting that Apple wanted to integrate the company with its Siri division. Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and Google eventually won....

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Look at all that spring-fed fiber in Provo. (Source: Flickr) All it took for Google to buy Provo, Utah’s fiber-optic network was a dollar. If only you had four quarters! [AP] Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that YouTube did not violate Viacom’s copyright–despite the fact that several of the company’s shows were being...

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The hacking has begun. As I write this, participants of the Disrupt NY Hackathon have been working for about six hours on what they are going to show us onstage tomorrow. We talked with a few of them to see how motivated they are. Full of energy, most of...

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Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation unit. Her team started UNICEF’s open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class ”Design for Unicef” in NYU’s ITP Program, is a global partner of Stanford’s...

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He founded the Atom Factory talent agency. He manages Lady Gaga, and when she wanted her very own social network for her millions of “little monsters”, he co-founded Backplane. And he doesn’t do weekly team meetings. Troy Carter is a general badass, and will be at Disrupt NY. Carter’s Atom Factory embodies...

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Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks: Sarah Perez of TechCrunch on Samsung's fake-turned-real "Unicorn Apocalpyse" ads: And the whole point of the commercial series was that Samsung devices helped the Unicorn Apocalypse team work better together to make the game a success. So is the lasting takeaway from the...

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This nerd would go to CES and ENJOY it. Nerd. (Photo: IMDB) CES is so uncool that it has magically transformed into cool. Cool? [TechCrunch] Over 2 million people pledged close to $320 million for Kickstarter projects in 2012. [Kickstarter] Apple is reportedly working on a less expensive iPhone to...

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After graduating from Y Combinator, Crowdtilt launched in February of last year to become “the Kickstarter for any group.” More specifically, the startup has been on a mission to become the platform of record for all manners of group fundraising — anything that isn’t a good fit for crowdfunding platforms...

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Twitter just announced via blog post that it has launched an advertising API, which will allow brands to run ad campaigns through the company’s API partners, rather than having to buy them through Twitter itself. This confirms a report by TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden saying that Twitter would launch its ads...

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At the risk of seeming like my father, a man who will beat a dead meme into the ground long after its moment in the sun, I present to you the Harlem Shake Bookmarklet. To use it, you will visit this site and drag the bookmarklet into your Chrome browser...

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"Slow Social Media": Josh Constine of TechCrunch shares a bit about NewHive, including their seed investors, which includes CrunchFund. One trend that interests me is the shifting of online tools into the background, to get out of the way of the art they're trying to facilitate. We see this on...